Andrew schmidt and charles eeveecomb



UNITEU STATES exa -T trace. 7

ANDREW SCHMIDT AND CHARLES REVERCOMB, OF \VlNNlPEG, MANITOBA,

' CANADA.

REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,523, dated March 9,1886.

Application filed October 20, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ANDREW SCHMIDT and CHARLES REvERcoMB, both ofWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, have invented a new and Improved Hose-Reel,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to construct a hose-reel upon which thehose will be automatically wound by running the cart back over the lineof hose; and to this end the invention consists in the peculiarconstruction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described,and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 15 drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in boththe figures.

Figure l is a side view of our improved reel, one of the cart-wheelsbeing removed to disclose the construction and arrangement of the chainsand chain-wheels, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus.

Referring now to the general construction of the reel and cart, Arepresents the axle, which is bent downward from the inner end of eachjournal 13 B, to cross the machine and afford a space within which thereel may be revolved. The shafts D D are mounted on springs E E, thatare rigidly secured to the axle A. These shafts support the seat F andproject to the rear, where they carry bearings for a shaft, G, to whichfour sprocket-wheels, a, b, c, and d, are fixed.

The reel proper, which consists of a drum having side plates, 6 e, isfast upon a shaft, I, which rides in bearings ff upon the shafts D D.The shaft I carries two sprocketwheels, (shown at N N,) which'areconnected with the wheels I) and c of the shaft G by chains h h.

Upon each of the journals B B there is a loose sleeve, n, which carriesa sprocketwheel, M, said sprocket-wheels being connected by chains h hwith the wheels (1 and d of the shaft G. The outer ends of the sleeves nn and the inner ends of the hubs of the wheels K K are notched to form aclutch, 0, when the parts are brought together, the position of thesleeves upon the journals being Serial No. 190,453. (No model.)

controlled by levers P P, which are pivotally connected to lugs p 1),that are secured to the shafts D D. The lower ends of these levers areforked, and the forked ends rest in the groove of grooved collars 0 0,that are fixed on the sleeves n n. The upper arms of the levers .P Prest against racks o 12, that project outward from the seat-box, saidracks be ing notched, as at t i, so that the levers may be held inposition to throw the clutch in or out of engagement.

When the machine is drawn forward, and the clutches O O areinengagement,the sprocket-whcels M M will be rotated, and will impart arotary motion to the shaft G through the medium of the chains h h andwheels a and ti, and as the wheels 0 and b are fast upon the shaft Gthey in turn will impart a rotary motion to the reel 0 through themedium of the chains h h and the wheels N N, thereby winding up thehose.

Such a hose-reel as has been described may be used with a great savingof time, which in some casesis an extremely valuable point, and as theconstruction is extremely simple the parts are not likely to get outoforder.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. In a hose-reel, the combination, with abent axle, wheels mounted thereon, and thills supported on springssecured to the axle, of a reel mounted in bearings on thethills,directly over the axle, and mechanism for operating the reel fromthe wheels, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a hose-reel, the combination, with bent axle, wheels thereon, andhaving notched hubs and thills supported by said axle, of a reeljournaled in bearings on the thills, above the axle, sprocket-wheels onthe ends of the reel, a shaft journaled in the rear ends of the thills,sprocket-wheels on the said shaft, sliding and notched sleeves on theaxle, sprocketwheels thereon, drive-chains, and a lever for operatingthe sleeves, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. A hose-reel consisting of the bent axle A, the wheels B, havingnotched hubs, the

thills D, supported on springs E, secured to lever P, and the catch 12,substantially as herethe axle, the reel 0, jOlllllZl-lQd in the thillsin shown and described. above the axle and provided with sprocketnwheels N N, the shaft G, journaled in the 5 rear ends of the thills andprovided with the x sprocket-wheels a b c d, the notched sleevesW'itnesses:

01, sliding on the axle, and provided with; J. H. D. MUNSON,sprocket-wheels M, the chains /1 h, the forked J. OBED SMITH.

